In-Game: You still can feel it

Only this time, the feeling isn’t so good. John Maine is getting the ball up and Derek Jeter just took him out. It’s the fourth inning and he’s already thrown 91 pitches. Because the Yankees’ pitching isn’t so great, the Mets are still in this, but they aren’t getting much help from Maine.

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John Delcos enters his third season covering the Mets for The Journal News after eight seasons on the Yankees beat. Prior to coming to New York, John covered the Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Browns and Cleveland Indians.

4 Comments

RMKMets

Everyone wanted to go gaga over Maine, but this is why I said I’d like to reserve judgement on this kid. He’s now very much come back to earth. Is he as good as that 5-0 start? Probably not, but is he as bad as the way he’s pitched tonite and last game? No. The real John Maine is probably somewhere in the middle.

Anyways…hopefully he gets his act together and keeps this at 4 runs long enough so that our bats can start hammering away on this rookie

BTW…I’d like to add…this is another case of the typical Mets chokefest thus far against a young pitcher. This dates back as far as I can remember…anytime they face a young inexperienced pitcher, more times than not they struggle and make the kid look like the 2nd coming of Pedro

Yeah, I long for the good old days when Delgado would drive in the winning run(s) in a stirring Mets comeback…Oh wait, that was THIS WEEK!...
OK, so a walk-off walk, and a seeing-eye single may not be a reflection of the power-hitter we’ve come to expect, but he’s finding ways to contribute while working through his problems. I for one, will reserve adjectives like “pathetic” for those more worthy (a certain left-handed relief pitcher comes to mind)...